David Jackson

Writer

David Jackson has been a Chicago Tribune investigative reporter since 1991, except for a year at The Washington Post, where he shared the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for public service for articles about citizens shot by police. At the Tribune he was a Pulitzer finalist 4 times: for exposing violence in residential treatment facilities for youth; for interviewing dangerous fugitives who live in foreign countries; for the series "How Troubled Kids Became Big Business"; and for a probe of the Nation of Islam.

Recent Articles

Lawyers for the Chicago Board of Education wanted to question the family of a student who had reported being raped about the boy’s prior sexual history. On Wednesday, a judge said no. In a sharply worded order from the bench, Cook County Circuit Judge Kathy Flanagan said she would not permit that...

Illinois lawmakers have renewed bipartisan efforts to address the Chicago Public Schools sexual abuse scandal, filing bills designed to protect students by making sweeping changes to state laws. Legislators last year proposed 12 bills that would allow state officials to swiftly revoke the licenses...

Illinois child welfare chief Beverly “B.J.” Walker told the Tribune late Friday she will step down next month. Gov. J.B. Pritzker is conducting a national search for a replacement, Walker said, and she has agreed to stay on to help the transition. "I said they have the responsibility to assess...

By his own admission, serial pedophile Thomas Hacker sexually abused hundreds of children in Illinois and Indiana, exploiting his leadership roles in the Boy Scouts, Catholic churches and suburban Chicago Park District programs to prey on boys as young as 10 and 11 from the 1960s through the 1980s....

A Chicago Public Schools teacher was arrested and charged with sexual abuse this week in a case that allegedly involves four teenage victims. Court records and authorities said Julio Mora, 55, was arrested at his suburban residence Monday and charged with four counts of aggravated criminal sexual...

A former Prosser Career Academy teacher pleaded guilty Monday to sexually exploiting a student in 2013 when she was a 16-year-old sophomore. Scott Gallus kept his hands clasped behind his back and spoke in a quiet voice as he admitted to getting the girl drunk on sangria at a North Side tapas restaurant...

A former Ukrainian Orthodox priest was charged this week with stealing more than $330,000 from one of his trusting parishioners, a 96-year-old Nazi prison camp survivor who has dementia. Nicholas Chervyatiuk, 57, faces felony charges of theft and financial exploitation of an elderly person with...

Chicago Public Schools’ child-abuse reporting policy is clear: School workers must report suspected abuse to authorities immediately. And the state “mandated reporter” law, enacted more than four decades ago, makes failure to report abuse a crime. But that has not been enough to instill a culture...